Abstract: An object is to provide a small and highly reliable inductor capable of handling a large current. The inductor includes: magnetic core formed by pressing a mixture of a powdered magnetic material and a binder; coil part disposed inside magnetic core; and external electrode formed by bending end portion of coil part protruding from magnetic core. Coil part and external electrode are made of a flat conductor, and a width of end portion of coil part protruding from magnetic core is less than an average width of coil part disposed inside magnetic core.

Abstract: A video distribution server, video distribution method, and recording medium which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for evaluating the cystine uptake ability of cells having the steps of contacting cells with selenocystine to allow the cells to take up selenocystine, washing away selenocystine not taken up by the cells, and crushing the cells and determining selenocystine contained in the cytoplasm and a method for determining selenocysteine having a step of contacting selenocysteine with a fluorescent dye that specifically reacts with selenocysteine to change in one or both of fluorescence wavelength and fluorescence intensity, or reacting selenocysteine with a fluorescent dye under a condition that the fluorescent dye specifically reacts with selenocysteine to change in one or both of fluorescence wavelength and fluorescence intensity, followed by measuring the fluorescence intensity for determining selenocystine.

Abstract: A filling system with a supply conveyor, an infeed screw, a supply star wheel for a rinser, a rinser, a discharge star wheel for a rinser, an intermediate star wheel, a supply star wheel for a filler, a filler, a delivery star wheel for a filler/capper, a capper, a discharge star wheel for a capper, and a discharge conveyor is provided. Each component has a revolving body such as a star wheel. In case an abnormality occurs in any component, a control unit activates a brake for that component, which stops the star wheel of the component forcibly, while controlling servomotors for all of the other components, thereby stopping the star wheel of all of the other components where the abnormality does not occur. Even in the event of the abnormality in any component, each component is stopped nearly simultaneously, so that the filling system can prevent damage to all of the components.

Abstract: A star wheel H of a blow molding machine 13 constituting a blow molding line 2 as a master machine driven by a motor M is provided with an encoder E for generating a pulse depending on rotation of the star wheel H, and a filling line 3 as a slave machine driven by first to fifth servomotors SM1 to SM5 is controlled by second control means 5 based on a pulse from the encoder E. In the event of an abnormality in the blow molding line 2, the second control means 5 controls the filling line 3 based on a pulse from a pulse generator 5a instead of a pulse from an encoder E, and thus performs processing of a vessel retained by the filling line 3. Even in the event of an abnormality in the master machine, the slave machine can be continuously operated.

Abstract: An upstream side wheel includes grippers B which do not perform opening and closing operations for themselves, and a downstream side wheel includes grippers A each having an opening and closing mechanism, and in a delivery position in which both the wheels are adjacent to each other, a plastic bottle 1 is delivered from the gripper B to the gripper A. Here, if the upstream side wheel or the downstream side wheel abnormally stops, the grippers A are switched from a use state to a retreat state. Thereby, interference between plastic bottles gripped by the upstream side grippers and the grippers of the downstream side wheel is avoided. Even if one of the wheels abnormally stops, the other wheel can be continuously operated without increasing the equipment in size.